Rajkot: A special Pocso court in Visavadar sentenced a man to rigorous life imprisonment for raping a 15-year-old girl after blackmailing her with secretly captured nude screenshots, holding that he exploited her age and trust to satisfy his lust.The judgment was pronounced on April 30 by special Pocso judge H V Joshi. The court convicted…
Rajkot: A man accused of eloping with a 16-year-old girl from Dwarka in 1994 was detained in Kerala after 32 years, after a cold case review by Devbhumi Dwarka district police traced him to Alappuzha.Local crime branch (LCB) sleuths detained Venu D Damodharan, 59, from Cheppad village in Alappuzha district. A case under Indian Penal…
Rajkot: The Rajkot Division of Western Railway won four prestigious General Manager-level shields at the 71st Railway Week Awards Ceremony held in Mumbai on Friday. The awards were presented by Western Railway General Manager, Ramashray Pandey for outstanding performance during 2025-26.The division received the Rail Madad Shield for effective passenger grievance redressal, the Commercial Cleanliness…
Rajkot: Already reeling under intense heat, Gujarat is bracing for an even harsher spell of summer in the coming days, with the weather department forecasting heatwave conditions across several parts of the state till May 14.Temperatures, which have already breached the 40-degrees mark in many cities and towns, are expected to climb further across North…
Rajkot: A double murder-suicide rocked Sandhavaya village of Gondal taluka in Rajkot district on Friday, as a 37-year-old cement factory owner, Jaypal Togadia, allegedly strangled his two minor children before taking his own life on Friday.The tragedy unfolded at the Gayatri Cement factory on Ghoghavadar Road in Gondal on Friday. According to police, Jaypal Togadia…
Vadodara: For decades, Gujarat has had the reputation of being among the country’s most peaceful and safe states. The figures recently released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) for 2024 show a different picture. Violent crimes have increased sharply in the state, from 9,015 cases in 2022 to 11,967 in 2024 — a 32%…
Rajkot: The Surendranagar forest department apprehended a man identified as Dalsukh Mathasuriya from the Chorvira forest while he was allegedly poaching a spiny-tailed lizard, locally known as “sandha”.According to forest officials, the spiny-tailed lizard is protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, making its hunting and trade illegal. Despite the ban, traffickers target…
Surat: A 38-year-old tailor was stabbed to death at a garment unit in Puna on Friday after a quarrel with a co-worker, police said, adding that the dispute was triggered by the accused seeking the victim’s daughter’s phone number.Mohammad Chand (38), a native of West Bengal, worked at a garment unit in Puna. Police said…
Rajkot: The Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Tribunal awarded Rs 66.47 lakh with interest to the family of a 34-year-old supervisor who was crushed by a reversing truck inside a salt factory in Gandhidham in 2021.The tribunal directed the truck owner and insurer to pay the compensation for the death of Yogesh Girdhani, holding the driver…
Rajkot: A dispute over an ancestral structure in Babra taluka of Amreli district led to the killing of a 31-year-old man on Thursday.Bharat Ugrajiya, originally from Fuljar village in Rajkot district and living in Rangpar, Morbi, was attacked and his throat was slit in the Kariyana-Jivapar Road area.Police suspect the murder is linked to a…
